Journal 5

They put her to bed and sent for her married daughter from up around Ocala to come see about her.  The daughter came as soon as she could and took Annie Tyler away to die in peace.  She had waited all her life or something, and it had killed her when it found her.
      The thing made itself into pictures and hung around Janie's bedside all night long.  Anyhow, she wasn't going back to Eatonville to be laughed at and pitied.  She had ten dollars in her pocket and twelve hundred in the bank.  But oh God, don't let Tea Cake be off somewhere hurt and Ah not know nothing about it.  And God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me.  Maybe Ah'm is uf fool, Lawd, lad dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus.  Ah done waited uh long time.
      Janie dozed off to sleep but she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. he peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red.  but pretty soon, he laid all that aside and went about his business dressed all in white.  But it was always going to be dark to Janie if Tea Cake didn't soon come back.  She got out of the bed but a chair couldn't hold her.  she dwindled down on the floor her head in a rocking chair.

I think it's interesting how in the entire passage there is a lot of reference to sleep, beds, death, the sun, and waking up. There is atleast four or more uses of the word bed or sleep in here.




Alliteration, also a description of the sun and light.

I noticed that Hurtson used dark and light to help us kind of think more of how Janie really feels, for example how she talks about there being no light for janie when Tea cake is gone. Could the light stand for hope or happiness? Could that be what Tea Cake is to Janie?

The "or something" makes me think of a bit of confusion, unsureness, but that is not what it was intended for. i think it's just adding on or taking off years to how long she waited.


I saw a sort of repetition of sounds at the end of the two words.


There was a lot of use of  words that had T sounds in them.


Personification about the sun and also imagery for describing the sun.


The description of her not being able to stay in the chair, but putting her head on the chair added a mood or tone of Janie being sad and worried.




I noticed that she started off a lot of the sentences with the same sounds.